TY - JOUR
T1 - Congenital Stationary Night Blindness With Negative Electroretinogram
T2 - A New Classification
AU - Miyake, Yozo
AU - Yagasaki, Katsuya
AU - Horiguchi, Masayuki
AU - Kawase, Yoshikatsu
AU - Kanda, Takako
PY - 1986/7
Y1 - 1986/7
N2 - An analysis of 64 patients with congenital stationary night blindness showed that all had essentially normal fundi. Electroretinography (ERG) showed a normal a wave with extremely reduced b wave (negative type) when recorded with a single bright white stimulus in the dark. We classified these patients into two groups based on the evaluation of rod ERG and/ or psychophysical dark adaptation measured with an 11° test target at 15° in the upper part of the retina. One group (35 patients) lacked rod function (complete type) and the other group (20 patients) showed some rod function (incomplete type). Nine patients could not be classified. No pedigree showed a complete and incomplete type in one family. Differences between the two groups in refractive error, photopic function, and oscillatory potentials in the ERG suggest a different pathogenesis. Our analysis may provide a new classification of congenital stationary night blindness with a negative ERG.
AB - An analysis of 64 patients with congenital stationary night blindness showed that all had essentially normal fundi. Electroretinography (ERG) showed a normal a wave with extremely reduced b wave (negative type) when recorded with a single bright white stimulus in the dark. We classified these patients into two groups based on the evaluation of rod ERG and/ or psychophysical dark adaptation measured with an 11° test target at 15° in the upper part of the retina. One group (35 patients) lacked rod function (complete type) and the other group (20 patients) showed some rod function (incomplete type). Nine patients could not be classified. No pedigree showed a complete and incomplete type in one family. Differences between the two groups in refractive error, photopic function, and oscillatory potentials in the ERG suggest a different pathogenesis. Our analysis may provide a new classification of congenital stationary night blindness with a negative ERG.
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U2 - 10.1001/archopht.1986.01050190071042
DO - 10.1001/archopht.1986.01050190071042
M3 - Article
C2 - 3488053
AN - SCOPUS:0022528965
SN - 0003-9950
VL - 104
SP - 1013
EP - 1020
JO - Archives of Ophthalmology
JF - Archives of Ophthalmology
IS - 7
ER -